Africa picture news

12-03-2024

I'll be damned! This is the only surviving pirate graveyard

If you ever get the idea of watching whales come to the surface, there is no better place than the island of Nusi Buraha off the ...

10-03-2024

Community of elegant people: How dudes from Congo live

Photo report by Francesco Giusti about members of the SAPE community (Société des Ambianceurs et des Personnes Élégantes - ...

08-03-2024

Tippi from Africa-The famous Mowgli girl

Tippi Degré is an unusual girl who spent her childhood in Africa surrounded by wild animals that became her best friends. She was ...

08-03-2024

The life of a giraffe is a daily hell and all because of the ...

These animals are, without exaggeration, is known to us from early childhood — we saw them in cartoons, zoos, in the alphabet ...

06-03-2024

Pink lake in Senegal

There is a lake in Senegal that is bright pink. It was as if potassium permanganate had been poured into it. The water here is so ...

05-03-2024

africa aerial view

Photographer Martin Harvey made an incredible helicopter trip over the expanses of Africa (Namibia, Botswana, Kenya), capturing ...

05-03-2024

Nasreddin Dinet: French artist who converted to Islam

In the 19th century, traditional European art depicted the countries of Africa, the Middle East, and Asia as an exotic world ...

04-03-2024

Involuntary terrorist: how a crocodile became the culprit of ...

An amazing tragicomic incident occurred in August 2010 in the sky over the Democratic Republic of the Congo. A miniature aircraft ...

02-03-2024

Wildebeest migration — a leap of fate

Remember the scene from the cartoon "The Lion King". Yes, yes, the one in the gorge. In life, everything happens almost the same ...

27-02-2024

Schindler's Witch: The woman who saved hundreds of lives ...

She was considered a witch, but it was thanks to this that she saved hundreds of people from certain death. So embodied evil ...

27-02-2024

Fantastic landscapes of Namibia

Hougaard Malan from South Africa, traveling in Africa, collected a huge collection of photographs dedicated to this continent. ...

24-02-2024

Congo Muller: A Nazi and an African mercenary with a Devil's ...

The Soviet press called the former chief lieutenant of the German Wehrmacht, Siegfried Muller ,a "rapist and murderer", a "sadist", ...

20-02-2024

Portraits beyond the edge

Photographer Marc Garanger took these photos in Algeria during the War of Independence (1954-62). He happened to work there as a ...

18-02-2024

Witch camps in Ghana — how women who have become victims of ...

Even in the 21st century, there are places on our planet that have been forgotten by civilization. These include Ghana, a country ...

17-02-2024

Scientists have unraveled the secret of zebra coloration. You ...

You can forget the zoology classes that taught you about the zebra's camouflage coloration, designed to dissect its silhouette ...

16-02-2024

Francisco Nguema: mad President killer who ate the state Treasury

Francisco Macias Nguema, who served as the President of Equatorial Guinea, from 1968 to 1979, even among African leaders may be a ...

11-02-2024

Why do Africans have dark skin if black attracts heat

In summer, the optimal color of clothing has always been white. This is especially true in hot countries where the intensity of ...

09-02-2024

How the monkey officially worked on the railway

We often use the expression: "Even a monkey can be taught this." At the same time, we mean some simple work that does not require ...

09-02-2024

The Cradle of humanity

Ethno-photographer Joey Lawrence took these expressive pictures in the Omo Valley in Ethiopia in 2010. Due to the dense jungle and ...

04-02-2024

The story of Corporal Jackie — the most unusual hero of the ...

We are used to the fact that dogs and horses serve in the army together with people, but sometimes quite unusual animals, such as ...

01-02-2024

What Cairo looked like in 1910

These color photos were taken in Cairo in 1910, when it was growing rapidly. More precisely, these are slides painted by hand, on ...

30-01-2024

What children play in African slums

Everything is learned in comparison. Today our children are spoiled by an abundance of toys, thanks for this to commodity abundance ...

25-01-2024

Stunning African sunsets by Paul Goldstein

Wildlife photographer Paul Goldstein has spent years trying to to photograph the perfect beginning and the end of the day in ...

18-01-2024

War paint and superstition wild: amazing pictures Karo tribe

Stunning pictures show the life of the tribe Karo — the smallest in Ethiopia.Members of the community covered from head to ...